Yanna Lavigne

Born in Osasco,^[3] she is the daughter of a Japanese man and a woman from Bahia state. Due to her exotic looks, her school colleagues in Nagoya suggested to her that she competes in the Aichi province's local beauty contest in 2006.^[4] After she was discovered by a Brazilian scout, she worked as a model in Tokyo. She returned to Brazil when she was 19 years old and studied at Rede Globo's actors school.

She is of Japanese, French and Spanish descent.^[5]

Her television debut was in the Fantástico's sketch named “O Cupido”, in 2010, and in 2011 she guest starred in several episodes of the telenovela Malhação.^[6] The actress played a promiscuous girl in the 2012 telenovela Avenida Brasil.^[7] Yanna Lavigne was part of the main cast of the 2013 telenovela Salve Jorge as a Turkish woman named Tamar.^[8][9] She played Ana Fátima, who was one of the protagonists, in the 2013 telenovela Além do Horizonte.^[10] Yanna Lavigne played a victim of a homicide in the 2014 police TV series Dupla Identidade, by Glória Perez.^[11] She guest starred in the 2015 telenovela Babilônia as Susana, who is the mistress of the dishonest mayor Aderbal, played by Marcos Palmeira.^[12]